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Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.
Oh my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune.
What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.
I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.
Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.
What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.
Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.
Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know but by report.
I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things.
The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror.
And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last; Nurses to their graves are gone, And the prams go rolling on.
Every night I bring home flowers and burn candles. And I have a real sense that home is what starts everything inside of you.
When I designed 'Flower' I was thinking about making it a positive, almost like a self-healing experience. It's like therapy.
I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less.
For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.
You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.
My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.
You will notice already that Mr. Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers.
I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.
A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.
I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.
The woman wears a floral print blouse with lots of leaves and pink flowers. Risa would like to attack her with a weed whacker.
Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.
Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.
At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.
O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
One day, I could be wearing biker boots and a leather outfit, and the next day, I could be wearing a flower dress and sandals.
To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.
For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens in burning stars, but on the earth He has sowed his name in tender flowers.
Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.
As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.
Only an acceptance of both the flowers and the thorns can bring you peace. Peace, after all, is the fruit of total acceptance.